La Tradition dans le Bas-Judaïsme

Lacocque André. La Tradition dans le Bas-Judaïsme. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 40e année n°1,1960. Le Problème de la Tradition. pp. 2-19

Date et milieu du livre de Ruth

Le livre de Ruth est une compilation post-exilique dont la pointe polémique est dirigée contre le parti théocratique au pouvoir à Jérusalem. Sous des dehors lyriques, ce récit est une «novella» subversive dont la véritable portée est rendue manifeste à la fin (4 :17). Ruth la Moabite s'inscrit dans la lignée de ces femmes «scandaleuses» aux yeux des réactionnaires inspirés par Esdras et Néhémie. Elle devrait tomber sous le coup de leur ostracisme, alors qu'elle est, avec les Tamar, Rahab et Bathshéba, parmi les aïeules de David et du Messie à venir.Lacocque André. Date et milieu du livre de Ruth. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 59e année n°3-4,1979. Mélanges Edmond Jacob. pp. 583-593

L'insertion du Cantique des Cantiques dans le Canon

Lacocque André. L'insertion du Cantique des Cantiques dans le Canon. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 42e année n°1,1962. pp. 38-44

Mélanges de Philosophie et de Littérature juives, 1957

Lacocque André. Mélanges de Philosophie et de Littérature juives, 1957. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 40e année n°1,1960. Le Problème de la Tradition. pp. 67-69

The role of timing cues in speech perception

Theories of speech perception posit that recognizing key frequencies in speech sounds is the primary way we recognize speech. These theories, however, do not explain how we understand speech with shifted, key-frequency information such as whispered speech. In an effort to determine characteristics of speech vital to speech recognition beyond just frequency, timing patterns were examined in auditory nerve fibers’ action potentials throughout the presentation of speech sounds. Since chinchillas have similar peripheral auditory systems as do humans, they were used in the study. Eighteen chinchillas were anesthetized and their auditory nerves exposed to record their activity. Alveolar stop consonants speech sounds /pap/, /paep/, /bab/, and /baeb/ were presented to chinchillas’ peripheral auditory systems by a female speaker in two ways: normally spoken, and whispered, each at three different intensities. Despite the fact that whispered speech contains different frequency information than does normally spoken speech, the experiment is expected to reveal that each consonant evokes a similar timing pattern in the auditory nerve fibers across method of speech production, but distinct between consonants, regardless of whether the speech sound was whispered or normally spoken. Timing patterns in the auditory nerve fibers’ responses were gathered and analyzed by pooling the responses from each auditory nerve fiber from each chinchilla to create an ensembleaverage, time histogram. For each speech sound, a specific number and pattern of peaks in action potentials at certain points in time appeared in each histogram, sometimes independent of method of speech production, whispered or normally spoken. Certain histograms revealed similar timing patterns encoded in the chinchillas peripheral auditory system for each pair of speech sounds, showing that timing information is consistent between different forms of speech production and therefore might be an important cue in how we process speech